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Review by
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The works of Mervyn Peake, poet, illustrator, and author of the children’s story Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor and the fantasy/horror Gormenghast trilogy, fall somewhere between Edward Gorey and Kafka. Like Gorey, Peake loved to create over-the-top grotesques. Unlike Gorey’s tongue-in-cheek style, though, Peake’s books feature a Kafka-esque level of genuine weirdness....
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